The youth ministers told us that "After you die, God will replay your whole life on a giant projector screen in the afterlife and all humans ever will see your secret sins." I don't think the youth ministers thought this through. Read more
The youth ministers told us that "After you die, God will replay your whole life on a giant projector screen in the afterlife and all humans ever will see your secret sins." I don't think the youth ministers thought this through. Read more
Tim LaHaye’s theology and the awkward plot Jerry Jenkins has constructed for it simply do not allow for humanity to rage against or to question or to negotiate with God. “Cruciatus in crucem” — “to Hell with your punishments” — is not a phrase anyone in "Left Behind: The Movie" is allowed even to think, much less to say. Read more
The same folks who advocate the perspicuity of scriptures always wind up clarifying what it clearly says with ever-expanding Statements of Faith. Plus: Trump's MRA puppet; selective inerrancy, and "Why the Catholic Church Lost in Ireland." Read more
The deeply frustrating thing about this genre of alternate histories is something neither Gehrz nor Klein mentions in their discussions of Philip Roth's novel: It already did happen here. "It" is American history. Read more
Hurricane Maria killed 64 Americans in Puerto Rico. The belated, inadequate, incompetent, indifferent, and corrupt response of the Trump Administration killed more than 4,000 more. Read more
"Love your neighbor as yourself. Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law." Read more
"In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all those people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers. ..." Read more
The Rapture would be devastatingly traumatic on a global scale, but despite that — or maybe because of it — there would be dozens of tasteless, heartless Event jokes circulating before the first 24 hours had passed. Read more
For white Americans, the more you go to church, the less you respect Jesus Christ. The less you follow Christ. The less you know Christ. The less you recognize Christ when he's standing right in front of you. That's bad. Read more
Viewers of "Brooklyn 99" don't care which channel it's on. They're just happy the show will keep going and keep doing what it does, free from meddling by network executives. So, about Warren Throckmorton and Patheos ... Read more
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